Public Education Press Releases

​In a first-of-its-kind report, The State of Cybersecurity: 2018 Year In Review found that K-12 schools suffered at least 122 cybersecurity incidents in 2018, nearly 60 percent of which resulted in personal data being compromised. The K-12 Cybersecurity Resource Center…

Brehanna Daniels, the first African-American woman on a NASCAR pit crew, and 93-year-old Black Panther actress Dorothy Steel will highlight the city’s fourth year celebration of Black History Now 2019: Celebrating Today’s Change Makers Saturday, January 19, and Saturday, January…

New Tech Network (NTN) announced today that its students outperform national high school graduation rates for the eighth year in a row according to the 2018 School and Student Success Report. Students graduate from high school at 94%, ten percentage…

Among all candidates for the Perris Elementary School District Board, only one contender has identified specific causes for and stated specific solutions to address he believes is the inferior education of Perris, California's local children. Armed with a five-point “Road…

New Tech Network awarded Patrick Gallucci, Commandant of First State Military Academy, with the prestigious Susan Schilling Legacy Award for his exemplary leadership. The award was presented in St. Louis at the New Tech Annual Conference (NTAC), where 1,400 teachers…

With school shootings, bullying and teen depression reaching a crescendo, thousands of educators from around the world are meeting in Fort Worth this week at the​ World Positive Education Accelerator June 25–28 to deal with the growing number of kids struggling to…

​​​​​Empowering students by fostering student agency has been shown to improve outcomes, leading to gains in student engagement and achievement. But many school systems struggle to implement this approach effectively. To remedy this problem, Agentic Learning today launched a competitive…

Keynote Search, a company that helps organizations with business-critical hiring needs, announced today that Jeffrey Moat was selected by the Pallium Canada Board of Directors as their new Chief Executive Officer. Moat steps into the newly formed CEO role. Jeff was…

The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) has teamed up with the leading web design agency to announce the completion of a much-anticipated and robust web project. The new portal is designed to serve as a digital resource for educators of…

Solutionpath, a U.K. education technology business is set to revolutionize the way universities are able to harness their student data after a three-year trial of its pioneering analysis and monitoring software. The pilot project, at Nottingham Trent University in the…

​​​Clean the World Foundation, a leader in Global health, continues its commitment to hygiene education by launching a worldwide Global Handwashing Day initiative aimed at building awareness for the importance of proper hygiene and announcing plans to build a permanent…

Dr. Thomas Adams, Witte Museum Curator of Paleontology and Geology, has described and named a new species of fossil crocodile discovered in North Texas. Dr. Adams, the lead author of a paper outlining the find, describes Deltasuchus motherali as one…

Contribution to society is a big theme in the Computer Science Department at the North Dakota State University. Leading the charge is Department Chairman Kendall E. Nygard who, in addition to sponsoring the Nygard Scholarship for Computer Science students, has recently…

New Tech Network, (NTN), today released its 2017 Impact Report offering evidence that NTN schools graduate students at higher rates and demonstrate stronger college persistence than the national average. New Tech students also score higher on academic measures and employability skills, in…

David Russo, a retired attorney, member of SAG-AFTRA, author, and passionate poet who works to share his philosophies with interested listeners and readers today, this week officially published his highly anticipated chapbook of poetry, "Tokin’ Of My Esteem: Hybrid Theory,"…

The Accelerated Schools, a pre-K-12th grade network of public charter schools that provides high quality education to students in South Los Angeles, celebrates their grand opening of a new, $37 million campus for its dual language (Spanish/English) school, The Accelerated Charter…

Q, a premier student information system (SIS) developed by Aequitas Solutions, Inc. was selected by Moreno Valley Unified School District (MVUSD) to replace its current system Infinite Campus. After conducting a comprehensive review of 5 leading systems and official RFP…

​Owners of multi-line telephone systems (MLTS) in Texas are now required to provide direct-dial access to 9-1-1 without having to dial an additional digit such as 9 first before getting an outside line. Business service users (BSUs) of MLTS have…

Pulsar360, Inc., a telecommunication solutions provider to small and mid-size organizations, today announced it has become a premier member of CompTIA, The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA), a non-profit trade association, issues professional certifications for the information technology (IT) industry.…

New Tech Network (NTN) announced the creation of the South Carolina Learning Network (SCLN), a joint effort with Colleton, Charleston, and Florence, three county school districts. This new collaboration will result in the redesign of elementary, middle and high schools…